Hoverfly (syrphidae) communities respond to varying structural retention after harvesting in Canadian peatland black spruce forests

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 308-318

  Deans, A M ^a   Smith, S M ^a   Malcolm, J R ^a   Crins, W J ^b   Bellocq, M I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ONTARIO MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Functional assemblages; Species richness; Syrphidae; Variable retention harvesting

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BOREAL FOREST; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; FLY; HARVESTING; PEATLAND; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CANADA; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEMALE; FIRE; FLY; FORESTRY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPRUCE;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DIPTERA; FEMALE; FIRES; FORESTRY; MALE; ONTARIO; PICEA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

DIPTERA; PICEA MARIANA; PLATYCHEIRUS ROSARUM; SYRPHIDAE; TOXOMERUS; XYLOTA ANNULIFERA;

EID: 34249099658     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X(2007)36[308:HSCRTV]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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